Brave, Bright New Faces We have a superb show for you – tomorrow night at the Talent 1st Organisation we’re unveiling a host of new faces and players for the improv comedy stage. Hailing from MissImp and University of Nottingham Improv Society, these are the folks we’ll be laughing at
We Want You To have fun, express yourself and learn how to create unique, amazing and spontaneous theatre. We’ll take you through a six week course designed to prime your improvising mind with exercises, games and practice. Maybe you’ve done some improv before but would like the chance to be focussed like a
Improvisation – A Skill For Life There are thousands of courses out there to develop yourself professionally and personally. Some are fun, some are focussed intently on one narrow aspect of information management. There are a handful of skills which you can apply to everything you do and which will
The next Improv Comedy Beginners course starts on Monday! That means you only have two days left to register for the course – eek! This is a complete introduction to the skills and fun of improv comedy. Your teachers will be Nick and Parky, two of the faces most often
This week’s jam: Inspiration Important venue info: This week we’re at 8 Stoney Street (opposite The Old Angel Pub) at 7.30pm. Despite heating, it can get a little chilly so wrap up warm! This week’s jam is run by: Parky It’s me again this week, with the third in a
This week’s jam: Don’t be Pig 1 or Pig 2 Important venue info: This week we’re at 8 Stoney Street (opposite The Old Angel Pub) at 7.30pm. Despite heating, it can get a little chilly so wrap up warm! This week’s jam is run by: Parky Those of you who
Improv Comedy for Teenagers Tonight we begin a brave and awesome experiment – teaching improv to the teenagers of Nottingham. Why would you want to do it? It’s the best possible thing you can do for fun and we think that if you start doing improv when you’re young you
This week’s jam is a follow up/inspiration from Nick Parkhouse’s jam 2 weeks ago. This week’s jam is run by: David. It’s baaaaack! The clean jam! This week we try to make funny scenes without resorting to sex jokes and falling back on “easier” humour. Yes sex jokes are funny,
What ho! Oxjam Music Festival is taking over Beeston (and Chilwell) this Saturday 22nd October and MissImp have been drafted in to even up the balance with an afternoon of comedy! I (Nick) am compereing the show from 2-5pm at Latino’s Restaurant on the High Street in Chilwell. We’ve got
By Nick Parkhouse (4) Ah, the Hopkinson Gallery. With its lack of heating, its over-running yoga pupils and its one, lonely fluorescent light, it truly is the Room of Kings. The latest addition to the already-bloody-constricted-by-the-roof-pillars venue is an erotic dancing pole, which should come in useful and in no
This week’s jam: Gender Swap This week’s improv jam is brought to you by: Parky This week’s jam is simple – in every scene you will play a character of the opposite gender from you. This quote from Chicago Now neatly covers what we are not doing this week – playing boring stereotypes
This week: The Character Jam This week’s jam is run by: Parky Creating interesting characters and the relationships between them is the bedrock of improv. However, how often do we create the same type of character or someone who is just a thinly disguised version of ourselves? This week, we’re
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